Athletic and technical footwear manufacturers Asics America Corporation and Asics Corporation Japan have been granted a motion for preliminary injunction enjoining discount footwear retailer Payless Shoesource, Inc. from infringing the Asics Stripe Design trademark. The court enjoined Payless from "... importing, exporting, selling, distributing, offering to sell, soliciting orders for, taking orders for, and/or advertising or promoting, footwear bearing a design similar to Asics' Stripe Design trademark and designated as Payless's Champion shoes and/or any and all colourable imitation or variation thereof."